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Ronald Reagan History
Ronald Reagan History
1981 - President Reagan called coach Paul "Bear" Bryant of the Alabama Univeristy football team to congratulate him on his 315th career win.
1982 - President Reagan met with Clint Eastwood and Gordon Wilson to discuss their group's effort to get American P.O.W.s out of Laos.
1983 - President Reagan met with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir of Israel.
1983 - President Reagan signed proclamation 5131. It prclaimed the years 1983 through 1992 as the National Decade of Disabled Persons.
1984 - President Reagan and the First Lady attended the Senate Republican Unity Dinner where Senator Dole was made the new Majority Leader.
1988 - President Reagan met with the artist that had been commissioned to paint his portrait for the National Gallery.
| It [democracy] must be the product of free institutions, churches, labor unions, independent judiciary, and the press, and its life-giving, rejuvenating process is a citizen placing his vote in a ballot box. - President Reagan, November 4, 1982 |
